Tony Valentte is looking for people with personal and professional stories portraying the overcome of barriers and prejudice. Testimonies will be part of his work ‘United Nations, I’m a Muslim’.
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In October, the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Lebanon will host a colloquium on cultural interactions between Latin America and the Middle East. Registration for scholars and artists is open until July 30.
The federal capital will host soccer games of the Rio 2016 Olympics from August 4 to 13. The money will be used mainly for security.
An open-to-the-public meeting on August 24 at the Goiás State University will focus on the influence of Arab culture in Brazil via the work of Raduan Nassar and Milton Hatoum.
Regulars of the city’s cultural venue Sesc Vila Mariana will participate in a musical performance and learn Arabic calligraphy at an event featuring refugees and designed to introduce the country’s culture in Brazil.
Native refugee teachers will teach Arabic language and culture, as well as English, French and Spanish from July 2 to 30 at the headquarters of the Library and Research Center for South America-Arab Countries (Bibliaspa).
Since June 15, passengers can buy shared flights from both companies, with the advantage of only one check-in needed.
The exhibition “Navy of Brazil – past glories, future accomplishments” will run from June 14 to 29 in Beirut, marking the Brazilian Navy Day by showing officers interacting with Brazilian and Lebanese civilians.
The Sesc (Social Service of the Commerce) branch in Campo Limpo, São Paulo, will hold the event next Friday. Among the performers is Syrian Abdulbaset Jarour, who will sing Arab songs.
Exhibitors at Festuris will include two Arab airlines and two travel agencies specializing in packages to the region. The event will take place next November in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul.
Airplane crash impacted the industry, causing visitor influx to plummet by 54%. Russian tourist arrivals dropped the most, but arrivals from Arab countries went up.
Roberto Khatlab and Hoda Nehme, of the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, will take part in events at PUC-Goiás, on the 9th and 10th, and at UFRJ, on the 14th. They will address political and social issues in the Middle East.
Ten athletes will take part in the Rio Olympic Games as team IOC. Originally from Syria, Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Ethiopia, they now live in Brazil, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Kenya.
A class of more than 80 students, most of them Syrian, was the first one to graduate from a course offered by mosque Mesquita Brasil in São Paulo.
